In the days following the vote to unionize nearly 300 Cablevision employees in Brooklyn, union representatives traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet with elected officials and take part in a legislative and political conference for union delegates nationwide.

They met with U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Congressmen Jerrold Nadler, D-Brooklyn, and Tim Bishop, D-Southampton, in the nation’s capital.

“We’re just telling them the story,” Christopher Calabrese, executive vice president for CWA 1109, said. “It wasn’t the only subject we spoke about with elected officials.”

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But even as they sought to get the word out about the union’s views and meet with other union locals in the nation’s capital, they said other Cablevision workers closer to home are contacting them, saying they’re interested in unionizing.

Workers in Brooklyn voted via secret ballot to join the union in an election administered by the National Labor Relations Board, which was expected to ratify the vote Friday.

But the union insists largely un-unionized cable industry workers are paid less than those at traditional telecom companies.

“Workers feel so empowered by what happened in Brooklyn,” Calabrese said. “We’re receiving phone calls and leads from all over the tri-state area.”

Calabrese said CWA isn’t launching a push to unionize other Cablevision sites, but that the union would help workers at other locations if there is a demand.

“We don’t actively chase workers. If workers contact us and want to form a union, then we help them,” Calabrese said. “My sense is it will lead to more unionization drives. I have lots of emails and phone calls.”